Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 14, Number 3, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 14 July 1883 — Page 1

THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

Town Talk.

INCOMPLETE CORRESPONDENCE. Generally speaking, when any correspondence is made public, equal prominence is given to both sides of the case. This is done because it is just and fair. Last year, when the boom against exCongressman Pelree was worked with such vim, every word which conld be said against him in bis own party was given all the publicity possible under the circumstances His defeat was a hard blow to bim, and those who opposed him, in his own party, ever since then, seem to take a particular delight in throwing it np to bim. Last spring, When Captain Armstrong was elected Mayor, the evening papor published the following dispatch, which was said to have begn sent Mr. Peirce:

TKRKK HAUTE, May 2, 1883.

HON. R. B. K. PEIKCE, Crowfordsvllle, Ind.: Captain Annntrong, antl-Pelroe Republican, elected Mayor by two hundred majority.

NICK FALLBACK.

At the time it was published the dispatch was considered a hoax, as no one for a moment supposed that Capt. Armstrong would sanction the proceeding. He was the candidate of his party, regardless of past difficulties and cliques all did their level best to secure his election, and they succeeded. It now turns out that the dispatch was sent, but the silence which ensued indicated that the gentleman who received it never auswered It. This was another mistake. It was anawored as follows:

CRAwroiuJSViLLB, May 2,1888.

MH. N. FILKKCK DKAK Hiit—Ploaae accept my thanks for your dtxpatoh giving UM the flrht nowsreceived hero of Hie splendid Republican victory won In Twrro Haute yesterday. I did not know that Captain Armstrong was making the kind of a race suggested t»y you, but if you are right about this, the result Is especially gratifying to mo, because it shows that my friends there, as everywhere, were loyal to tiie nominees of the party. I rejoice with you over this splendid triumph of the party in your city. Very truly it, B. F. PKIHCK.

This shows that the late Congressman is not grieving very much over the result ol last year, and that he can yet rejoice over a party victory even though the successful man opposed him at one time. While on this subj ct it might not be out of place to remark that there is a possibility that

FKIRCR WILL BR A CANMDATK again next year, as was hinted some time ago. His friends claim that they will nominate him in the face of the combined influence of Vigo county. It in natural that he should feel dissatisfied with the result of last year, and make an effort to redeem hlmsel f. He is a young man, and a man of greater ability than Is generally acknowledged, and It is not very likely that he will allow himself to be laid on the shelf at ttyi commencement of his political career. If he should secure the nomination next year it will be found that most of the opposition to him has died out. Next year comes the general aud Presidential elections, at which the good of party takes precedence of personal prejudices. But even laying aside that consideration, the average voter will awake to the realisation of the fact that there are matters to be considered of equal importance to the appointment of a postmaster, although it begins to look as though the

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Is bound to control the fate of the Republican party. It la stated that unless the preaent postmaster In removed there will-be found over two hundred Republican voters in the city who will pledge themselves In writing to vote the Democratic ticket. This will be very good for the Democracy, and the postmaster will «tlll remain. The attention of the President should be called to this matter at once. It is a matter of vital importance to the 30,000 population of Terra Haute -who shall nan the postofflce. It to true that Its affairs are managed as well now as they

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to not the question. The grand mogul must be consulted and given the plum The situation calls to mind a story once related In Washington City. Missouri was at onetime represented in the Senate Chamber, by an easy going old gentleman named Bogy, whose greatest distinction was the proprietorship of a son noted for his imbibing capacity and onlimited cheek. This son always poshed his way on the ground that be was "TomBogy, son of Senator Bogy, of Missouri." One night while on his usual rounds be dropped into a saloon where an old time bummer was just awaking from his slumbers. Thinking to have some fun the sprig of the Bogy family tree shook him and Inquired what be was doing them The tramp eyed him, took In the situation at a glance, and began: "Well, you see, I dropped in berea while ago and fell asleep. In that sleep I dreamed I was dead and on my way to paradise.

Arrived at the gat# I found a great crowd congregated, each one waiting his turn. Presently a duck about your rtseoame along and tapped sotoud attfce entrance that St. p*ter came InatanUy and opened

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the gate. The young man demanded admittance immediately, at the same time asserting that be was "Tom Bogy, son of Senator Bogy, of Missouri." The saint retired, but in a few moments returned and ushered the young man in with all the pomp and dignity at his command. Arrived at the throne the Almighty descended, shook him cordially by the hand, and turning aronnd, said Christ, my son, get down and give Tom Bogy, son of Senator Bogy, your seat." There are several Tom Bogy's around, and their importance will never be discovered until they are numbered among the dear departed.

There has been considerable unnecessary talk ard misrepresentation this week over the discharge of an employee of the Postofflce department here. It has been charged and published that it grew out of the old fight and that in consequence the Democrats will carry every ward in the city. The truth of the matter is that Mr. Peirce knew nothing of the matter, that after the convention last year be understood that the gentleman referred to was his friend and warm supporter, and that he still entertains that (pinion. Tinder the civil service rules a discharge could only be made for cause, and where a discharge is made it is presumed that it is reported to the department and a record of the same kept by (be officer making the report. To place the matter right the report should bq published.

THS( DIVORCE MILL.

If the city cinnot have the fever scare or the cholerascare this season, it is at least enjoying divorce epidemic. Every day brings the usual number who pray the court to "give us this day our regular divorce," and the mills are grinding neither exceeding slow nor very fine. The business ft so brisk and the demand so great, that ^be applicants are only too glad to take tiem in any shape, so they are received quickly. Years ago the divorce business was so brisk in this state that it became famous for the ease with which they were procured. Men and women of other states who desired to indulge in the article, located here for six months and then returned to their homes in a state of single blessedness, provided the} did not marry before reaching there Divorces cannot be piooured so easily now, even though there is a half hour record in 4bi»oettnty, but they are of such fiequent occurrences as to convince the Imost skeptical that many marry in baste who are not content to rep«nt a leisure. This county used to bavt a judge who granted a divorce in earn case In which be was assured that tie couple could not live together happiy, and always announced his decision a very few words. The principle my have been correct, but tfiere are vey few who sanction it, especially in dses where there are children in theifamily. Men and women should not tarry until they understand each other, ad when the step is once taken it sho:1d be binding for life. The knowledge !iat a divorce can be easily procured dabtless causes many heartless marriage, and a check should be placed upoihe wholesale business.

FRW meflwho borrow money stop to seriously ensider the vise into which they placeheir business when they bind thenilvw to pay interest. There are times, to true, when men have to secure the Ian of money, but as a rule the almoslunlversal habit of rushing to the ban fend stipulating to pay high rates for tl use of funds la the opening of the gatehat leads down to financial destructiot Men cannot be too careful or prudent The remorselessnesa ofin-terest-eatia it well illustrated in an anecdote Peter Cooper: Once, while talking aba a project with an acquaintance, the Iter said he would have to borrow thetoney for six months, paying intereaU the rate of 3 per centum per montb."Wby do you borrow for so abort a net" asked Mr. Cooper. "Because tbbrokers will not negotiate bills for a lqpr time." "Well, if you wish," said r. Cooper, "I will discount your note at hat rate for three years." "Are

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be borrower' Certainly I am. I will discount yo tbte for $10,000 for three years at th »te. Will you do It?" "Of course wil." said the merchant. "Very well aid Mr. Cooper, "juat sign this lie {for $10,000 payable In three years,adjgivs me your check for $800, and t! transaction la complete." "But wher to the money for me?" asked the sonithed merchant. "You dont get Cf fone was the reply. "Your intset lor 90 months, at 3 per centum penooth, amounts to 108 per centum, oil0,9to therefore your cbtck for $800 tt nakea us even." The force of ttpractical illustration of the tolly of pot aoch an exorbitant price for the u»f money was such that the OMHrcbanti&ermined never to borrow at such rtiH» rates, and be frequently uaed to a that nothing could have ao fully coatoad bim astbis rather humorous pr*al by Mr. Cooper.

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Vol. 14.—No. 3 TERRE HAUTE, IND, SATURDAY EVENING. JULY 14, 1883. Fourteenth Year

A Woman's Opinions.

ESSAY OK MAN.

What a peculiar way men have of enduring hot weather. On a broiliag hot day you cannot get a man to talk on any other subject than the weather. He gets up In the morning with the exclamation "By George, we are going to have another hot day He repeats this remark with variation, till breakfast is over. Then, no matter what a "big day's work" you have planned to do, you can not get him out of the house he develops a sudden affection for home, the coolest spot, the easiest chair. He sits helplessly around and asks his wife to go up stairs and get bim a clean sbirt, to put on his collar, to bring him a glass of water, and finally he manages to get down

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stronger talk about the weather, asks everybody be meets if it isn't the hottest day they ever saw, sheds as many of his clothes as he dares, wipes off his face, neck and bands with his pocket handkerchief, and along toward noon, regardless of consequences, he opens an account with the nearest saloon. At noon he comes into the house like a whiff from the desert of Africa he proceeds to throw open every shutter and raise every curtain, and tben» with the heat and light and flies streaming in, he selects an upholstered sofa, the warmest place in the room, and stretches himself out in all his misery. At the dinner table he declares he doesn't want a mouthful, he can't see why people cook in hot weather, and then eats four times as much as anybody at the table and in one fourth the time, pouring down, meanwhile, ice water and iced tea, until every pore in the body is transformed into a small fountain.

The afternoon is an exaggeration of the morning. He mops off his face, he wipes his hands, till his handkerchief resembles a floor-cloth and then beholds it by one corner and uses it to keep off flies. He pours down one glass of liquor after another into his overburdened and overheated stomach until his whole system is a vast furnace heated by steam. Look at the men that loaf around the hotels and saloons and street oorners and say if this picture is overdrawn. At night, instead of remaining at home ta rest wad recuperate, he rushes off down town in the dust and beat and crowd, takes on more Boda, seltzer, beer, wine or whisky, or all combined, and reaches home in a state of complete exhaustion. When he goes to bed, instead of lying quietly and giving the blood time to cool, he rolls and tosses pnd threshes, and jumps np and sits at the window, tries sll the beds in the house, including the floor, until at length tired nature can bear no more and the man falls asleep. SHALL THS PRKACHKRS TAKH A TRIP 7

It seems very strange that there could possibly be two opinions on this question, but a number of the papers have been very gravely discussing whether the ministers should be allowed a vacatian. How absurd 1 Of course they should take a rest and above all should give the congregation a rest. Just think of the poor congregation, compelled to forego a Sunday morning nap, to resist the alluring papers and magazines, to dress up in all their finery, to takea long walk, to ait up straight and precise without crossing their feet or winking an eye for an hour and a half,—compelled to do this fifty-two timea, or, if very righteous, one hundred and four times a year. To be sure our laws are very lenient and if people positively refuse to sacrifice themselves In this manner they do not have to go to jail or be fined, but then there to that awful judge, called the conscience, that sits enthroned somewhere in our anatomy and makes us feel awfully uncomfortable. How nice it would be If Protestants had some sort of a confessional where we could go with humble and contrite hearts, acknowledge that we hadnt been to church fora year, pay our fine and depart absolved.

And then there are some people who feel obliged to attend divine services because they pay auch a high pew rent. Having taken a pew in the moat fashionable part of the house they must occupy It in order to get the value of tbelr money. It to like taking out life insurance,—a man must die In order to make anything out of the company. Or like buying and improving a lot in the cemetery,—if a man doeaa't occupy it bow la be going to make anything out of the money invested But if the church to closed and you are sure nobody else to sitting in your pew of course you ca» fed quite easy.

It to true we may argue that, by making an effort and going to church In warm weather we may bear an excellent sermon, but all oar wicked newspapers publish good sermons from our mosteminsnt ministers and by staying at home, we, erf the masculine gender, can enjoy tbem in all the comfort of shirt sleeves and elevated feet, and we, of the feminine gender. In the supreme luxury of a wrapper and tbe aofk. True we miss tbe music by tbe choir, bat think what a relief that to—to tbecboir, not to have to slog on a bot day.

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Kit, leaving the congregation altogether out of the question and discussinglt from the minister's stand point, why should he not have a vacation He has worked hard one day in the week for ten long months and he is quite exhausted. Then, it must be taken into consideration that he has to prepare two sermons, or treatises, every week. To be sure an editor has to do that much work every day, but we are not talking about editors. Then, there are tbe weddings, they are very laborious, and the funerals, they are wearing on the nerves. We must also consider the minister's poor work that is, his work among the poor.

On the whole, he has a very hard time, and nobody but a very wicked or a very godly person would object to his taking a two months' vacation with his salary going right on as usual. There are those who argue that the flock should not be left so long without a shepherd, but that must be a very* bad congregation which oannot be trusted for a few weeks while the police, or rather the pastor, is off on a trip, lhey say, "The devil never takes a vacation," but whoever said so, evidently never visited many watering places or he would have seen his Satanic Majesty in all his glory.

In sober earnestness, there Is no good reason why ministers should not suspend services during the extreme hot weather. What is the use in trying to make people happy if they are physical lj£tin comfortable? What is the use in tiling them to be good and kind and charitable when the perspiration is streaming from every pore, collars wilting out of shape, sleep and flies both struggling for possession Or to talk to them of another world when they are trying to ward off spontaneous combustion in this? Let both minister and congregation manage to get through the summer with the stock of godliness on hand. People are never very wicked in hot leather. The list of crimes always diminishes after the Fourth of July. Let pastor and parishioners spend tbe drowsy midsummer in rest and recreation, gathering grace and knowledge for the labors of the coming year, and, in the early autumn, greet one another with body and spirit invigorated, with friendship renewed and strengthened.

IDA HARPSB.

ABOUT WOMEN.

McKee Rankin's experience with stagestruck girls is that they usually want fame, and not money.

The bully of Sloux'City is a woman weighing 220 pounds, and she distinguished herself by assaulting and knocking down two men a few days ago.

A wealthy philanthropic lady of Boston asked a shop-girl: "How much do you get a week?" Ninedollars," was the smart reply "how much do you get?"

A Brooklyn Heights girl, disguised as a maid servant, washed the side-walk of her father's residence with tbe hose for the sake of getting a chance to turn the water on a dude who insisted upon making love to her.

The Detroit Free Press raises its eyebrows with astonishment over the idea that a girl who requires about space for three men in the street car can ait so comfortably by the side of a nice young man in a narrow-seated buggy.

A young lady who was very eager for the company of a certain young man sent him a note asking him to acoompany her to a friend's house on a certain evening. When he responded she naively remarked:

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sending for you, bnt my earrings are real dtomonda, and I'm afraid to be out on the the street at night without having some one to help guard them."

Kate Claxton has been, as the blind orphan "Louise," whacked about the stage by old Mrs. Wilkins, aa Frochard, a vigorous and venomoua old girl. She has been in the habit of grasping Miss Claxton by tbe arm, and administered ugly pinches in the same spot. Hie arm has caused trouble several months, and now develops a cancerous sore, st once very painful and very alarming. Her doctor to extremely anxous about tbe result.

OSTRICH aa are very useful birds. They furnish feathers and similes without end to todies and acribleis. What this world would be without ostrich tails and tales about ostriches to beyond the range of fancy. But now tbe noble bird of the desert comes to tbe front In anew role aa an Iconoclast and domestic example. He has proven since becoming naturaliced on California ranches that some of our beliefs about him are quite untrue. One of these has been that be left his wife to look after family oarea altogether, and that tbe female left her eggs to be hatched out by tbe son. But it appears from tbe observation of California ranchmen that the female aits on tbe eggs In tbe daytime and tbe male assumes that duty at night. He to very solldtous about the cars of the household, sod if aba demurs when ber tarn comes to sit aa tbe eggs, be gives ber good kicking till she submits and settles down peacefully to ber duty.

It USTLE OF A PETTFCOA T,

What is the reason that women once and contact have a charm, subduing influence or magnetic power over the souls of men A finely organised man with his eyes shut can feel the difference between the presence of a male and a female. The male invades his personal atmosphere, or aura, as the Greeks called it, and the idea of a masculine human being is at once suggested a jemale comes, and the subtle intuition leaches that a woman is near. Plato nlfl that things are known by their bnposites Tennyson, denying that woman is undeveloped man, but a diverse being, says that the bond of the sexes is, "Not like to like, but like in differenoea Grindon asserts a truth once denied but now acknowledged by the best thinkers: "That there is a spiritual sex as well as a corporeal sex," and this is "one of the sublimest facts in human nature." Here, then, are three keys which ought to unlock the mystery. But there is something external to the magnetism of woman's soul. It is her dress made on the curve line, and thus contradistinguished from that of man's made on the straight line. Curves have the property of rustling, and as women impart their vitality to everything they wear more quickly than do men, and as their nature is more strongly imbued with the harmonies, it is not wonderful that there is music in the "Rustle of a Pettiooat," which is the caption of the following lines by John E. McCann, in the New York Mercury: They've sung about the patter of the rain upon the roof,

Of tlie patter of the slipper on the youngsters tattered pants. Of the patter on the prairie of the ranger's mustang's hoof,

Of tbe patter of tbe summer rain on riven, earth and plants But there's something yet to sing about, far sweeter than them all,

For a heavy heart is lightened when a gentle maid appears And care trips by on airy wings, into spaoo, beyond recall,

When the crispy, perfumed rustle of a pettiooat it hears.

There is something so entraneingf in the music of its sound, There is something so delightful in the rustle, that, I swear, When I'm sitting in the twilight, and when no one else Is round.

I'd barter hopes of heaven, when the rustle's near ray chair, To feel a sculptured, silky arm a-twining round my neck,

To feel a satin, downy cheek a-pressing close to mineTo see the harsh worlfl melting ttrsatiny, cloudy speck,

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By the demigods of ancient Rome! you've never lived at all I— You have never known whattls to breathe the air of Paradlss You have never sipped the wine of life—you have only tasted gall—

If you've never, in the gloaming, Encountered loving, lustrous eves I If you've never when sad and lonely, sitting In a quiet roem,

Looking out upon the meadows, listening to the cowbells clink, When the night birds sang as anthem to the amber-colored moon,

And the pearly drops of dew came down to give each flower a drink—

If you've never heard tbe rustle of a petticoat close by— If you've never felt the one inside the petticoat breathe low A loving, tender, perfumed, soulful, little, tremulous slgd,

Why, you've let the golden hours of life oome—and let them go! I've heard tbe wind sing low at night round gables and through trees,

Through tbe rigging of a noble ship, like lost souls moved to tears: But the rustling that I sing about is sweeter tbftD all tn69^*

Ah 1 the rustle of a petticoat is music in my a

THE babies of New York have attracted tbe attention of a correspondent of the Chicago Inter-Ocean, who writes that tbe aidewalks in the precincts of poverty are littered by them, as will be tbo esse as long as hot weather lasta,and that there to about as much juvenility out of doors in those more fashionable quarters where tenements are called fists. The creepers snd toddlers here are attended by nursemaids, neat in their white caps and aprons, idle except for the light duties of keeping their little charges clean and safe, and altogether the best placed among servants. "Just think of it," said a keeper of an employment bureau. "These nursemaids get from ten to twenty dollars month, tbe average being abut fourteen dollars. Not so much skill to required of tbem ss of tbe oommonest cook or laundress, their work to very light, they are put Into the best sleeping rooms in order to to be with the youngsters at night, and by day they lounge in tbe parks. Taking tbeir board into account, they get as good ssa dollar and a half a day. That to as much aa the average wages of salesgirls in tbe stores, and considerably above tbe earnings of tbe hard-working girls in tbe cigar, clothing, flower, and other. You'd suppose that audi places would be sought after and ao tbey are, but entirely by foreign-born girls, with tbe exception of negroes, who generally are not wanted. Tbe nurse-maids are Swsdlab, French, German, Irish—everything but American. Girls born In this dty seem to inherit pride from tbe soil. Tbey will not go Into menial service, especially a branch of it which requires them to wear anything like a livery."

The burlesque "Evangeline," which bad five years of continuous snd prosperous use in this country, has failed on its first trial in England. Tbe pantomimic Lone fisherman, we thought ao laughable was there an "absolute and •otomn mystery to tbe audience."

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GETTING MARRIED?

As a rule, women think they have reached the acme of earthly bliss when they can write Mrs. before their names. It is very pleasant, no doubt, to have a house and husband of one's own, provided that one is old enough to take care of the same but simply to get married, to only a small part of the plan designed by the Creator for our wisdom and happiness. To most women, theii wedding day is a day of emancipation from care —ajjoyful beginning of new state of exstence—of life without a shadow of grief or aught to mar its perfect harmony. It is so pleasant to be the one idol of a true heart, no wonder that the young girl sees everything through rose-colored a

But, after all, it is as well to remember that others before have entered the matrimonial state and found it to be one of care, doubt and anxiety. And they were women as good as tbe best. It is this mistake that leads so many women wrong at the commencement of married life. They take no thought of their duties toward another, nor remember that all are erring creatures, and their idol no less day than others, only that their love has made it gold. They expect freedom from care in married life, but they have only given up their freedom and commenced life's cares in earnest. Then, alter tbe first excitement of being the bride and observed of all observers has passed away, comes the settling down to actual life, and the young wife must needs learn to eat, think, sleep, visit and receive visitors—these are part of her duties as before while, in addition to her domestic cares, she must learn to adapt her temper and disposition to another's views, and learn the beautiful lesson of self-denial, if she expects perfeot peace.

Poets may sing of love's younjj dream and life in a oottage, but practlcfil people will tell you how much more real is love's awakening and a comfortable two-story. It is this very dream of love that causes ao much misery. If women dreamed less of love, and accepted its wide-awake reality, there would be less disappointment and more real happiness. Not until a couple have left off dreaming and turned to the joys of real love and life, do they understand how -perfect love may trutke the heart's peace, but, alas! too often tbe awakening oomes after the spirit has flown.

NINE HUSBANDS.

Mrs. Dyer, of Cleveland, Ohio, aged sixty years, has had nine husbands in thlrty-flve years, being an average of one in less than every four years. Her first two were canal boatmen and were speedily drowned while on duty her third was a cooper, who made barrels only two months after the wedding day and departed the fourth, however, got abetter grip and lasted nine years, being quickly followed by the fifth, and then the sixth, who shook with tbe ague four years and dropped off the seventh was the brother of the second husband the eighth another canal man who shortly sfter slipped into a watery grave, leaving her his canal boat, which she sold, and with tbe proceeds had the portraits of all her husbands painted at one fell swoop by an arttot. Her ninth, and lstest, Dyer, is not so popular as her previous husbsnds, "but," said she, "I was gettin' too old to be particular, and I took him." "He doesn't appear to be in good health," ventured to say the reporter, of the Cleveland Herald, who called on her as a natural curioalty. "No, George ain't overly stout, snd I reckon his picture will soon go along with tbe reat of 'em?' replied Mrs. Dyer.

TH* girl on a tricycle has already made her appearance at the summer resorts As observed st Newport, she sat between two wheels, which were connected by a short sxletree, on a kind of saddle—astride of it, but not so circumstanced ss to make divided garments necessary, as in riding horseback, man fashion. Her feet rescbed down to tresdlessnd her.hsnds wereeuiployed in steering, by means of a device connected with a low front wheel. Her posture was not that of sitting, however, but ber figure was suspended nearly perpendicular, and her legs were moved great deal like those of a boras afflicted with springhalt or a swimmer treading water. Her knees came np high, with an action more productive of good exercise than of grace. And yet rite was "a symmetrical and pleading traveler." Tbe prescribed costume is soft, thin flannel, with a blouse waist and a skirt reaching just to the gaiter tops. It to obvious that the latter level could not be steadily maintained, in view of tbe high treading required to work tbe tricycle, without some special modification of the garmeat. This wsnt bas been supplied by taking an idea from tbe equestrian habit. Lengthwise of the skirt in front two gussets are set in at points where the knees will protrude Into tbem in rising.

Some one says "no thoroughly occupied man was ever miserable." That evidently don't know what It is to attempt the feat of keeping twin babies quiet while tbeir mother goes to church.

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